Several hundred fully veiled Afghan women gathered on Saturday (September 11) in the amphitheater of a university in Kabul to express their support for the new Taliban regime whose policies towards women are causing concern in the country and in the country. ‘foreigner.
These few 300 women, the majority of whom wore black niqabs covering their entire face except the eyes, waved the flags of Afghanistan’s new masters as they listened to female speakers defending the new regime’s measures.
A handful of them had donned the burqa, a full veil with a grid at eye level that was compulsory under the first Taliban regime (1996-2001) and many women wore black gloves, noted AFP journalists.
Taliban expected to turn on women’s rights
The Taliban, who returned to power last August 15 twenty years after being driven out, are expected to turn around, especially on the issue of women’s rights.
The population and the international community keep in mind the strict application of Sharia, Islamic law, when they first came to power. Women were then not allowed to study or work.
Since August 15th, the Islamist movement promised that their rights would be respected and announced that they could study at the university, provided that they wear an abaya and a niqab and that the classes are single-sex, or separated from the students by a curtain.
In the amphitheater of Shaheed Rabbani University this Saturday, the speakers who have succeeded on the platform castigated the women who have taken to the streets in recent days in the country to demand respect for their rights. They also defended the new executive which banned demonstrations – unless authorized by the Ministry of Justice.
“Satisfied”
“We are against these women who demonstrate in the streets claiming that they are representative of women“Afghans,” denounced the first speaker.
“Is freedom to love the old government? No, that’s not freedom“, she added.”The outgoing government abused women. Women were recruited only for their beauty“.
Another student, Shabana Omari, said he agreed with the Taliban policy that women should all wear a veil: “Those who don’t wear the hijab are hurting us all“.
For another speaker, Somaiya, things have changed, for the better, since the return of the Taliban: “We will not see more”bihijabi“(people not wearing a headscarf). Women will be safe. We support our government with all our might“.
At the end of the speeches, the demonstrators marched in the street, waving signs on which one could notably read “women who have left Afghanistan cannot represent us” or “we are satisfied with the attitude and behavior of the mujahedin (Taliban) “.
More than three weeks after taking power, the Taliban this week unveiled the composition of their provisional government, but their policy still has many gray areas.
The new regime said women would be allowed to work “in accordance with the principles of Islam“, without giving more details.
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